"People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it."

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After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.

— John Henry Newman